Threading/TkInter problems with Buttons.

[Fredrik Lundh]

Marc wrote:
> I was trying to start a thread from a button to find that it would not
> work. The problem was that every time I started the application, the
> thread would automatically kick off:

can you spot the the difference between those two
lines:

> self.Go["command"] = self.thread1.start()
> self.Go["command"] = self.go_thread

(in the first case, you're calling the function, and assign
the return value to the command option...  in the second
case, you're doing the right thing)

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